Terminals, carriers, rates, regulations and the supply-chain stories that affect your day at the port.
Why don’t you gaze upon your IKEA table with wonder? This is a piece of furniture that couldn’t have existed a few decades ago. One such table could be imagined in Sweden and manufactured in China…
An end to a prolonged freight recession could be approaching sooner than some investors may think, one equities analyst said Monday. The bullish call was largely centered on the need for inventories…
On the day when the benchmark diesel price used for most fuel surcharges fell for the 13th time in 16 weeks, the futures market suggested this decline may have more room to run. The weekly Department…
Kodiak and Aurora take different approaches to driverless rollout Mountain View, California-based Kodiak and Pittsburgh-based rival Aurora Innovation both plan commercial driverless operations from…
Less-than-truckload carrier Pitt Ohio announced it has expanded its next-day service in and out of New England, a Monday news release said. The Pittsburgh-based carrier, which primarily provides…
With all the headlines on trade disruptions, you might have expected U.S. imports to fall in December. They didn’t, according to new data from Descartes. The U.S. imported 2,107,012 twenty-foot…
Chart of the Week: Freightos Baltic Daily Index – China to North American west and east coasts, Panama Spread SONAR: FBXD.CNAW, FBXD.CNAE, FBXD.PANA Disproportionate shipping rate increases resulting…
Just when oil and diesel prices seemed like they were going to be an endless headwind for the trucking and transportation industry, the oil sectors of a few countries rose to the rescue. The end…
Truck transportation jobs continued a slow recovery from the depths of the freight recession and the job losses created when Yellow Corp. went out of business in 2023. The December figures released by…
Bill Hall left his job as a senior marine engineer at age 59, earned his CDL and started Coyote Container with two trucks and one trailer in Northern California. Now he is among the first retail…
